First of all, G I A N T disclaimer: My kids are imperfect. (Sometimes VERY imperfect.) We have plenty of our own behavior struggles and I think I have kids bordering on the feistier/more…
-
-
Today is a day I probably would not post under usual circumstances. Josh and I were up on the later side and then G woke up at 2:30 AM for about an hour. It…
-
I don’t like to get up super early (as in 5 am, before the kids) on weekends — I’ll do it out of absolute necessity sometimes, like if Josh is on call and I…
-
I feel behind, having been swallowed up into a vortex of kids’ activities, work deadlines, student homework planners, and the like. A & C took a break from most organized activities last spring, having…
-
Life just feels really full right now. Primarily in good ways. I have had a lot of dedicated GME time recently (the full 0.5FTE) and feel like I am slowly growing into the role,…
-
I spend a lot of time thinking about routines. Definitely more than normal people. I am also obsessed with others’ routines.Routines don’t make up the entirety of our lives, but they certainly comprise a…
-
1- Our nanny has been out 8 days (and she had a week of vacation just prior to all that!). Her friend has been subbing and it has been fine, but not the same.…
-
1- Personal finance/frugality/financial independence blogs & podcasts. You guys, I don’t know what has gotten into me because quite honestly I’ve always had a very ‘easy come, easy go’ idea about money. And to…
-
The weather here has been kind of lame. It has literally been raining for days — I can’t really recall a day without rain/a thunderstorm for at least the past 10 days or so.…
-
(I think.) Seriously, there has been plenty said about this month in the parenting sphere (Spawned, The Mom Hour). And that’s because it’s true! There have been 3274 class events crammed into the past…
